Japan Still Demanding Return of Others Incident Settled, Foreign Minister Says Tokyo, Feb. 6.
CTUATED by a desire to reach an amicable settlement of the' £4. incident, the British Government, in a Note dated February 5, agreed to surrender to Japan nine of the Germans taken from the' Asama Maru, announced the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, in the House of Peers today.
The date and place, the Note added, were to be mutually agreed upon.
The Japanese Government, Mr, Arita said, was not the satisfied with this partial surrender, and would continue to demand delivery of the other 12 Germans, The Foreign Minister annowiced that in order to eliminate uneasiness on the part of Japanese vessels in the future, the Japanese Government had Issued instructions to Japanese shipping companies not to allow passages to persons embodied or suspected to be embodied tu armed forees of belligerent Powers.
The attention of the British Government, he added, had been drawn to the measures mentioned. "It my firm, belief," Mr. Arita concluded, "that int the future, occur Feneo of Incidents similar to the Asama Maru will be prevented."
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